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NEW YORK APPEALS COURT AFFIRMS THE RIGHTS OF PREGNANT WOMEN

New York (November 14, 2013): Today, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, rejected a lower Family Court’s finding that a woman’s decision to move from California to New York while pregnant was so “reprehensible” that it could bar New York courts from hearing her child custody case.

Amici Curiae Brief of Pregnancy Justice, New York Civil Liberties Union, MotherWomen, Inc.,National Organization for Women in New York City, Choices in Childbirth, Service Women's Action Network, Planned Parenthood of New York City, and the Reproductive Justice Clinic at The New York School of Law.